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Lifeliqe, HTC Vive Partner on VR for Education

By Dian Schaffhauser

07/18/16

A company that sells an app that allows students to explore biological creatures, botanical compositions, machinery, environments and other entities has signed on with a virtual reality company to make those same interactive models available to its users. Lifeliqe is working with HTC Vive to take its models to the new headset that the latter company launched in April.

Wearing headsets coupled with the content from Lifeliqe will enable students to walk among dinosaurs, explore the internal organs of a shark, examine the parts of a heart and get inside an engine to see how the gears operate.

"The fact that HTC Vive chose to work with us proves that educational content is an important area for virtual reality to conquer," said Lifeliqe Co-Founder and CEO Ondrej Homola, in a press release. "We're excited to bring our content to life with this new technology and distribute across classrooms."

The company recently demonstrated its technology with the HTC Vive headsets during ISTE 2016. The goal, said Homola, is to begin piloting its use in schools starting this fall.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at dian@dischaffhauser.com or on Twitter @schaffhauser.

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